Who will mow the grass & trim the weeds - shovel the snow (if relevant) - take tenant's calls?

The residents are fed up with what has been going on over the years and cannot get anyone to help them clean the mess up.

If you don't have to pay them to the state or feds, its real dollars.

As this mess deepens look for more states (if not the feds) to adopt punitive measures designed to "protect" homeowners from a problem Congress created.

I believe that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because the Fed forced rates to stay low for so long after they were due to increase, which led to the buying spree, inflated prices, and further blowing the bubble.

First a death, followed by the loss of a small fortune . . . wow.You bring up a good point on the FDIC, but that bailout is simply the printing of more money by the Fed -- typically followed by inflation.

In Oregon tenants can request protection under FED, which means evicting them can take up to six months.

Considering selling a CA residential building lot, which is now maybe worth much more than I paid for it years ago.I would be doing it via a 1031.I'm not sure how to ask the question so pardon my stumbling here:The 1031 defers fed taxes, right, but not CA taxes?

Most Short Sales have been hung in Limbo over the last month waiting for the Fed to roll out how they are going to help, the package passed, but hasn't had any action.This week the Fed is dropping their rate again along with the Money flowing in from the Bailout...Let's hope things are rolling again by Friday

The first clue should have been when the Fed quite publishing M3 in 2005.